Tuesday, 7 February 2012

"Yes, MIA's Super Bowl gesture was offensive...

... it should have been a V-sign"

Splendid article, too good to just cut and paste bits.

My latest blogpost: "Yes, MIA's Super Bowl gesture was offensive...Tweet this! Posted by Mark Wadsworth at 14:36

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11 comments:

formertory said...

Err......... no.

And why would she want to "insult 111 million viewers"?

Strange.

7 February 2012 at 16:21
A K Haart said...

Never heard of her... well I suppose I have now.

7 February 2012 at 16:25
Mark Wadsworth said...

D, AKH, she's a fairly well known Indian/English rapper (i.e. she's the only one in that narrow category) with a delightfully suggestive surname.

FT, why? Because pop stars down the ages have always got loads of free publicity by being deliberately offensive/suggestive etc. Those Are The Rules and long may this time-honoured tradition continue!

7 February 2012 at 16:28
Richard Allan said...

MIA isn't Indian, she's from Sri Lanka. Also she's crazy hot.

7 February 2012 at 17:25
Mark Wadsworth said...

RA, OK, she's English-Sri Lankan. Is that her real surname though?

7 February 2012 at 18:28
Anonymous said...

She's not English-Sri Lankan.

Ethnically, she is a Tamil.

Politically, she has a UK passport. She might also have Sri Lankan nationality, but there's not the slightest drop of Englishness in there.

Martin

7 February 2012 at 20:15
dearieme said...

There're lots of Tamils in India, Mark. Youy should have paid attention at school.

7 February 2012 at 21:54
Mark Wadsworth said...

D, first I said she was Indian, then I was corrected and told she was Sri Lankan, then I was corrected again and told she was Tamil and now you're telling me that a lot of Tamils are Indians? Can I just stick with my first answer please?

By the way, we didn't do this racist stuff at school, we learned the population, major crops, where it was on a map and so on.

7 February 2012 at 22:22
Derek said...

MW, I don't see anything particularly wrong with what you've said so far. And Wikipedia agrees: M.I.A. was born in Hounslow, London to Arul Pragasam, an engineer, writer and activist, and his wife, Kala, a seamstress, her parents are Hindu and of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. But it seems that the pedants are out to get you today.

7 February 2012 at 23:07
Mark Wadsworth said...

D, ta, I suppose it serves me right for not re-checking what I assumed to be correct, i.e. that she is Indian/English :-) And it's a score-draw between those who describe her variously as Indian (i.e. Hindu), Sri Lankan and Tamil.

7 February 2012 at 23:20
Twenty_Rothmans said...

Hounslow's in England now?

(former ratepayer to Hounslow council)

8 February 2012 at 00:28

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